Re: [BW] Page layout with Drupal 7

  • From: "E.J. Zufelt" <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: blindwebbers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 08:31:05 -0500

Good morning Jamal,

I'd like to encourage you to post these questions, particularly about layout 
and Core themes, to groups.drupal.org/accessibility .  I am certain that 
someone will provide a pretty quick response, and then we will have a record 
that this type of information is necessary to make our ecosystem more 
accessible to visually impaired developers.

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On 2011-03-09, at 8:10 AM, Jamal Mazrui wrote:

> I am learning Drupal 7 partly by building a site. Core or contributed 
> modules often create blocks of information that need to be assigned to a 
> region of the page in order to become visible to vistors. One problem I 
> am encountering is deciding what regions to use for blocks that are not 
> automatically assigned to a region. Right now, I am just using the 
> default Drupal 7 theme. Can anyone give tips on where to place things? 
> Are there conventions, or usability factors to consider, depending on 
> the nature of the block? Are there guidelines for when a block should 
> only appear on the front page, or be associated only with a particular 
> content type?
> 
> Other layout-related questions are as follows? Conceptually, what are 
> the distinct purposes of different menus, e.g., the main menu and 
> navigation menus Since the main menu and other menus can include 
> aspects that seem related to navigation to me, I do not understand what 
> is supposed to be different about the navigation menu, main menu, or 
> other menus.
> 
> I am also curious if anyone has tips on using the views and panels 
> modules with a screen reader. Are there canned layouts that are easy to 
> implement? If so, where should I start? Is panels really necessary for 
> a site that is not highly sophisticated?
> 
> I think content management systems like Drupal, WordPress, and Jumla! 
> hold much potential for blind web developers because they can 
> automatically handle a lot of the layout decisions. If we can only 
> master the mechanisms for creating layouts with the available designers, 
> we can go a long way toward developing visually acceptable and highly 
> functional sites.
> 
> Feel free to point me to web articles that explain some of this in a 
> conceptual rather than visual manner. I have done a lot of web 
> searching and reading of Drupal books, but am always open to learning of 
> other resources online.
> 
> Jamal
> 
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